Worrying web site
 

Did you tick the box to remove you from the edited register of the electoral role?

Then try this site

http://www.b4u.co.uk/

Go to the bottom of the page and enter your details in find a friend.

Are you on there? If you go to the contacts link there is an email address to request removal. The cheeky b@stards have made their phone contact number a premium rate number.

Next port of call is the local electoral registration office and a possible breach of ECHR.:flame:

[Edited on 24-10-2005 by chrisw]

Most worrying.

All removal requests should be sent by email ONLY to UK@b4u.co.uk
Urgent removal requests please Call (09067) 110005
Please note calls cost 50p per minute and will not last more than 5 minutes.

European Convention on Human Rights. Article 8-the right to respect for private and family life.

It really frightens officialdom!

[Edited on 24-10-2005 by chrisw]

Big Brother or what:lol:

Cool, you can find loads of people :devil::devil::devil:

How useful :D

Looks like Wigan Metro are doing their job as I am not on it, but an old girlfriend who owes me some money is!

Having said that I have also registered with the Mail Preference Service, takes about 3 months to kick in but then it becomes an offence to send junk mail to your address.

http://www.gov.im/dlge/waste/tips/home/junkmail.xml

There is one for unwanted calls also.

Bugga - looks like Man U owe me a few quid then!!!! ;)

This argument fails in my estimation in that the intial entry of your data on the register does not contravene the Three Tests namely;

. It is prescribed by Law
. It is intended to acheive a legitimate objective and
. It is proportionate.

Further in pursuit of Section 6 of the Act, the local authority could not have acted differently ( by refusing to release your information ) due to primary legislation requring them to do so ( either the full or edited registers depending on the applicant and the intended purpose the information was to be used for ) on payment of the necessary fee.

Had you decided to remove yourself from the edited register by annoting your electoral registration form to that effect then you may have a means by which a complaint may succeed.

If however you did not so removee your details from the edited register, then the only chance of a complaint being upheld would be for you to prove that the local authority, and not a private company or individual, passed on the details held in the full register for purposes not permitted under the legislation.

For more information, start here..... Representation of the People Act 2000

but Andy, Chris did start his post with "Did you tick the box to remove you from the edited register of the electoral role?" so I suspect he did - as did I and Michael did too, yet we're on there. Not impressed with that, though admittedly useful to know where other people live!

I'm aware of that as I did too, hence the next to last paragraph, you have to show that it was the Local Authority who released the data from the electoral roll and not a third party, not being an authority under the Act, who has supplied the information to the company for a complaint under Article 8 to succeed.
This is not the only site where you are captured and your details are available for public consumption, 192.com is another just as an example.

[Edited on 25-10-2005 by Rushjob]